It’s tough to live never satisfied. Jesus said in John 4 that all who came to Him would “never thirst again”. Pastor Bill Johnson talks about the importance of living satisfied in Jesus but also staying hungry for more.
it’s tough to live never satisfied
yeah in some ways when i cultivate
dissatisfaction though that doesn’t feel
like
that can leave me depressed and stuck or
that deal so i haven’t found success in
cultivating dissatisfaction
yeah it’s it is a strange thing i i
don’t like
i i don’t like part of what we’ve drug
into
yeah you know for 15 years we’ve drug
this thing along with this that i’m not
convinced is accurate yeah the hunger
for more
is the uh you know jesus said in john 7
you know this river you will be
satisfied
yeah you know john 4 and 7 both this
whole thing of the the river of god
you’re going to you’re going to drink
from me yeah
and your thirst will be quenched so
there’s something there experience of
abundant life
in the present not a lot not a life
that’s yeah i think
i think because hunger has been such a
big deal to get us breakthrough
i think people are afraid of being
that that acknowledging being satisfied
or full
is being satisfied in a complacent sense
yeah
and i think there’s such a fear of
complacency
that we sometimes put ourselves in a
place of unbelief
of continuously praying for things we
already have so it’s
and thankfulness i think it plays that
role i mean thank god this is a way of
being satisfied with you that’s what’s
been accomplished and
and it’s one of the ways to to uh
celebrate the present
yeah without getting stuck there yeah
yeah it’s
it’s a challenge and i feel like we got
to learn it for the next phase too
on how to how to be satisfied how to be
you know how to be full yeah but still
pursuing you know
how is it that i can be full because i
you know eric brought a word here
a year or so ago uh about if you’re
continually dissatisfied
uh there’s you’re you’re dysfunctional
there’s something dysfunctional in your
relationship with god
and that’s right he’s absolutely right
yeah uh we’re
we’re not to we’re not to foster that
we’ve got to
we’ve got to be full and hungry
yeah you know it’s it’s a weird deal
people ask me you know i i want you know
would you pray for me i want
more hunger for the word i go you know
what you
in in the natural you get hungry by not
eating in the kingdom you get hungry by
eating yeah
and so there’s this real paradox i’m
full because i’ve i’ve
i’ve filled myself up on god but it’s
created a hunger for more so it’s yeah
it’s kind of that that deal but
absolutely and i think it didn’t chris
somebody touched on just that idea that
when you’re
asking questions of the lord like one
answer leads to ten more questions in
some ways so
exactly that’s a way of kind of
celebrating that what god’s done and
then telling him what about this or how
does this work
yeah pressing into that even yeah more
for
what the lord has on these topics that’s
right every revelation
satisfies but draws us
into more because every revelation
brings with it more questions
yeah yeah that’s true you said something
made me laugh in staffing but
something about the lord loves diversity
but not if the diversity is between uh
passion and apathy
yeah yeah it’s it’s it’s sometimes
that ring true like yeah some christian
experience is either passion or apathy
but the lord loves diversity like yeah
not not that no
no no that’s right yeah that’s right
it’s diversity among people who are
passion for god
yeah yes diversity among people that are
abandoned to christ
that’s beautiful to watch you know we
just had david hogan
he’s just he’s such an amazing and
marvelous man
he’s really different than than you
or me he’s really different than john
arnott or some of these other heroes
that we have and yet they all have such
a unique place in this thing
and they all are equally abandoned to
the lord yeah you know so diversity
within that abandonment is beautiful
so i just right after you said that i
had read some about troy palamala the
the safety for the pittsburgh steelers
but he converted to orthodox
christianity you know it’s just so
interesting to see this radically
passionate guy
flies around the football field praise
why he’s playing football
i think i think the article said he
crosses himself even before we play
but again it was that uh he’s passionate
there’s a diversity in the expression
he’d been with some monk somewhere you
know and just was touched by their lives
and was like that’s what i want to
that’s what i want to do so i like it
diversity and passion
that’s fun but not the apathy
that’s the one the lord doesn’t like
yeah i’d love some passionate and some
apathetic christians in your family yeah
no yeah people always you know whenever
they see somebody zealous they ask
they’ll ask questions of me i’m sure
they ask of you
well where’s the balance in this no
balance isn’t between passion and apathy
yeah
that’s the it’s not between joy and
depression there’s no
balance between those things you know
between water and strychnine you know
just an equal
no no it’s all all one but yeah let’s
learn how to walk in wisdom but
yeah anyway it’s fun